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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Cohen

The stark reality of the Ukrainian refugee crisis at the Romanian-Hungarian border

Lucy Young

The queue was three hours long. A logjam of cars, bumper to bumper, packed with women and children who had fled Ukraine into Moldova or Romania, now waited to enter the Schengen area at Csengersima on the Romanian-Hungarian border.

The refugees looked shattered after travelling for days, but as a man in a red jacket approached on foot, eyes lit up, windows rolled down and hands reached out.

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